11. DeFi & Aave

Aave

  • It is a borrowing and lending platform for cryptocurrencies

  • APY Based (Interest / Haraam)


Uniswap

  • Decentralized app that allows us to trade/swap assets and tokens with each other

  • Decentralized stock exchange of tokens


WETH

  • Stands for Wrapped Ethereum

  • Way to tokenize our native L1 ethereum blockchain native token


Mainnet Forking

  • Instead of using mock contracts in our hardhat deloy scripts, we can use the original mainnet contract address and use hardhat forking

  • Hardhat mainnet forking forks the mainnet (only the thing that you want to use) which allows us to eliminate need of mocks

  • https://hardhat.org/hardhat-network/guides/mainnet-forking.html


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